Mary MacMaster

Strangers to Ourselves

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takes its title from Julia Kristeva’s book of the same name and deals with perceptions and experiences of ageing. Made in Strangers’ Hall, Norwich, a sixteenth century building housing a social history museum, it references the work of Dutch artists such as Vermeer, de Hooch, de Witte who often made narratives of women’s lives.